Chairman. I did go before the committee as charged. and advocated this increased duty on granite. and I convinced the committee that it should be made. and I can convince this House. if my time will admit. and I can convince the gentleman from Kentucky. that this increased duty is not a tax on the dead. but is for the benefit of thousands of living workmen. as honest a class of intelligent mechanics as can be found in the country. who have petitioned for this increase. I will go further and say that if this duty shall stand as reported by the committee. and our workman shall be relieved from the competition of the pauper labor of Italy. Scotland. and Europe. we shall not only benefit our own manufacturers and workmen. but we shall develop the great granite and marble quarries. not only of Massachusetts. Vermont.
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